Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 30, 1871 • The Kentucky State Auditor’s Report for 1870 of Fulton County reported the following statistics: 96,000 acres of land, assessed valuation, $833,183; 1,271 town lots, valuation, $165,140; 1,469 horses and mares, valuation, $95,505; 856 mules, valuation, $69,005; 3,307 cattle, valuation, $12,450; 46 stores, valuation, $121,975; under the equalization law, $110,020 with a total assessed valuation of taxable property $1,431,348. • The old Fulton County Jail was torn down with only the iron cells left standing. • Fulton County had twenty-two school districts within the Kentucky’s Common School System, each…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 23, 1871 • The Fulton County court met and appointed road surveyors to construct and repair roads in the county. The court also attached a part of the Johnson’s Precinct to the city of Hickman, which was expected to increase the number of voters by twenty-five. • A squad of Federal soldiers from Humboldt, Tennessee visited Hickman on September 19th to arrest a man named Bud Wade. He was charged with killing a black man in Obion County. The soldiers proceeded to Obion County to arrest five other men charged with…